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Karl Joseph (born 29 June 1986), better known by his stage name Sir Spyro, is a
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, DJ,
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and label manager from Manor Park and Stratford,
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. He was a
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resident for twelve years between 2005 and 2017, and since 2017 has presented
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's weekly Grime Show. He is a former member of grime crews Kamikaze,
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and
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's 2017 single " Big for Your Boots", which reached number six on the UK Singles Chart, and a remix of
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's 2019 single " Take Me Back to London" featuring Stormzy,
Jaykae Janum Khan, better known by his stage name Jaykae, is a British rapper and actor from Small Heath, Birmingham. Music career Jaykae's start with music began when he started listening to other grime artists from London. In 2017 he released a ...
and
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, the release of which sent the song to number one in the UK.


Early life

Joseph is the son of the late
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n singer Nereus Joseph and is part-
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n; he is also the cousin of fellow
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producer D.O.K. He grew up in a musical household with "a mini
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in the corner" and songs from " Garnett Silk,
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,
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, all flying out the speaker". His older brothers and sisters were aspiring
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DJs in the early 1990s, playing
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; however, he claims his DJing career was self-taught through using turntables in his local
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and "started off with me practising jungle when I was like eleven years old". He began collecting
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aged about twelve and owned a pair of
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turntables from the age of fourteen. He also began producing records at fourteen using
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, and was "inspired by jungle, garage and the early grime sound". There was a room set up with a
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in his local youth club on which he learnt to produce, although he decided at an early age to prioritise DJing and showcase the music of his contemporaries. His stage name came from a friend likening him to the video game character
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after watching him struggle carrying a heavy record bag in his youth. He was inspired by
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and the early
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shows of Slimzee and
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, and first gained an appreciation for grime music through listening to
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's Mak 10. His productions were later influenced by early
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instrumentals.


Musical style

Joseph's
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is a recording of himself saying "sounds of the Sir". Writing for '' Crack'', Tomas Fraser noted in 2016 that his production style had shifted from "
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-driven beats that used to cater for MCs" towards "darker, harder club sounds". Joseph has stated that there are "Caribbean elements" in his style due to his family background but he was also influenced by the sounds played by the friends he grew up with. He prefers to collaborate with vocalists in person to enable a more dynamic creative process.


Career


2000–2007: Pirate radio shows and Kamikaze crew

Joseph's first ever radio appearance was at the age of thirteen or fourteen, guesting on a friend's show on local
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station Blaze FM 105.6 in Manor Park. He later had a show on another pirate station, Raw Mission. His first radio residency aired on Monday nights between 8 and 10pm, the same time slot as
Nasty Crew Nasty Crew (commonly stylised as N.A.S.T.Y., a backronym for Natural Artistic Sounds Touching You) was a British grime (music genre), grime crew from East London, with its members primarily from London Borough of Newham, Newham. The group was fou ...
's popular show on Deja Vu FM, although he has claimed the preconception that he would have fewer listeners made his first forays into live broadcasting less daunting. He became a resident DJ on
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in 2005 at the invitation of the station's co-founder, Geeneus. At the time, he was a member of the crew Kamikaze alongside Killa K, Offkey, Beastie, Skips, and B Marvel, and
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ed fellow member Treble Clef's grime instrumental "Ghetto Kyote" in 2005.


2007–2011: Associations with Aftershock and Ruff Sqwad

Joseph later became a DJ for grime collective
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, joining his cousin, D.O.K. During his time with the crew, he mixed Mz Bratt's 2007 mixtape ''Give It 2 Em Vol. 1'', contributed the song "Spywinder" to the various artist 2007 EP ''Zumpi Central'', and appeared on
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's
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show in August 2008 for a guest mix. At the time, his refix of Rebound X's "Rhythm & Gash" was a popular choice in grime sets and would often earn the MCs vocalling it a "reload", where a song is rewound and recited in appreciation of a performance. The refix was used as the basis for Jme's "P", included on his July 2008 album '' Famous?''. In 2007, Joseph became the tour DJ for his childhood friend
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during Stryder's commercial breakthrough, due to
Ruff Sqwad Ruff Sqwad are an English grime crew. In 2009 he took over Slimzee's slot on Rinse from 3-5pm on Sundays. He formally joined Ruff Sqwad in 2011.


2011–2015: Pitch Controllers, Dragon Punch Records and ''Pure Grime'' compilations

In 2011, Joseph collaborated with D.O.K on the
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grime EP ''Dragon Punch''. It was released via the label and collective Pitch Controllers, which he established alongside Vectra, Mak 10, JJ,
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, Sir C and Teddy Music—most of them fellow Rinse FM grime DJs—to "put on raves", "play ourselves" and champion "producers in the camp". Remixing
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's single "Silo Pass" for
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in 2012 motivated Joseph to refocus on his productions, after having prioritised DJing for a few years. The song coincided with an increased public interest in instrumental grime music on the nightclub circuit. He established a new label of his own, Dragon Punch Records, through which he released the May 2012 ''Round 1'' EP, the December 2012 Footsie collaboration "Night Shift", and the April 2013 EP ''Sounds of the Sir'', the latter of which included collaborations with Jme, Merky ACE and Prince Rapid among others. Between 2012 and 2014, he also curated and mixed multiple instalments of the ''Pure Grime'' compilation CD series for dance music brand Pure Music (part of New State Music). His 2014 compilation ''Pure Grime: The Very Best of Grime'', which included a new version of his song "Pull It Up" featuring Jme and Ny, entered the
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at number 38. To promote its release, he shared the previously unreleased song "Chung Li" for free
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via ''
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''.


2015–present: Commercial breakthrough and BBC Radio 1Xtra residency

Joseph's 2015 single "Side By Side", featuring Big H, Bossman Birdie and
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, and his 2016 single "Topper Top", featuring Teddy Bruckshot, Lady Chann and Killa P, reached a wider audience than his previous songs. The release of "Side By Side" was accompanied by a music video, and the song was rated 9/10 by Chantelle Fiddy in a review for ''Mixmag'', while '' Complex UK'' later named it the sixteenth most "impactful" grime song of the 2010s. It was remixed by London trio YGG in 2016 as part of a various artist remix EP curated by DJ Amy Becker and released on vinyl. "Topper Top", also accompanied by a video, was released via the typically
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-oriented label Deep Medi Musik, which Joseph claimed was a "big deal" to him, after its founder Mala heard DJ duo
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& Neek play the song. Demand for the vinyl record resulted in the pre-sale website crashing and copies reportedly sold out within an hour. Other notable songs Joseph produced in 2016 included
Stormzy Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. (born 26 July 1993), known professionally as Stormzy, is an English-Ghanaian rapper, singer, and songwriter. In 2014, he gained attention on the UK underground music scene through his ''Wicked Skengman'' ...
's " Scary", which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 169,
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' "You Dun Know Already", which was nominated for the MOBO Award for Best Song, Capo Lee's "Mud", which independently peaked at number 57 on the UK
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chart, and
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's all-star "10/10" remix, featuring
AJ Tracey Ché Wolton Grant (born 4 March 1994), known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper and record producer from Ladbroke Grove, London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by ''The Guardian'' in a list of "best new acts to c ...
,
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and PK among others. Joseph was nominated in both the Best DJ and Best Producer categories at the
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Rated Awards 2016. In February 2017, Stormzy's " Big for Your Boots", which Joseph produced, was released as the lead single from his debut album '' Gang Signs & Prayer'', peaking at number six on the UK chart. It was nominated for the 2017 MOBO Award for Best Song, and the album, which also included the charting Spyro productions "Mr Skeng" and "Return of the Rucksack", topped the
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. Joseph claimed at the time that he was working on a debut album, which he later elaborated would also be titled ''Sounds of the Sir'' and was slated for a late 2017 or early 2018 release. In March 2017, he released the six-song EP ''Stop Talk'', a collaborative project with North London MC Capo Lee, via Sian Anderson's record label SighTracked. He produced AJ Tracey's July 2017 song "Blacked Out", which peaked at number fourteen on the UK Independent Singles Chart. It served as the lead single from his '' Secure the Bag!'' EP, which entered the UK Albums Chart at number thirteen. In August 2017, Joseph was invited to deliver a
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lecture about his craft at Bristol venue The Love Inn. In September, he was nominated for the Rated Award for Producer of the Year for the second consecutive year. On 10 November 2017,
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announced that he would be replacing Logan Sama as the host of their weekly Grime Show, which at the time aired on Friday nights between 11pm and 1am. He had broadcast weekly on Rinse up until that point. The following month, he collaborated with Ghetts and
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on a remix of
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's " Hell to the Liars". 2018 saw Joseph release a remix of
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's single " The One". In August 2019, he shared a remix of the
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single " Take Me Back to London" featuring Stormzy, Jaykae and
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, the release of which sent the song to number one in the UK. He also produced the Stormzy single " Sounds of the Skeng", which reached number 20 in the UK; the Ghetts song "Listen", which appeared on the soundtrack to the
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reboot of ''
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''; and a remix of the Mahalia single "Do Not Disturb". In August 2020, he released the six-track instrumental EP ''Rude Sounds'' in collaboration with fellow producer Rude Kid. He was nominated in the Best Producer category at the 2020 MOBO Awards. In 2021, he established the independent label Tekkerz to self-release music and released its first EP, ''Tekkerz 001'', before taking over room three at
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in December of the same year with a label showcase. In February 2022 he released the single "WISH", featuring posthumous vocals from Teddy Bruckshot alongside Black Steve, Killa P and
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, via Neighbourhood Recordings, an offshoot of the artist management agency that represents Joseph as well as
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. In April 2023, he collaborated with Nasty Jack, Jammer and So Large on "Ease", a single from the Grime Originals compilation ''Grime Originals: The Album''. In May 2023, he released the ''Have Manners'' EP as the second record on Tekkerz. Two months later, this was followed by the ''Tekkerz 003'' EP, featuring the songs "Baraks", "Tekkers 3" and "Solder Wire". In September 2023, he released the single "Rambunctious" featuring Bling Dawg. That year, he also began performing as a part of King Original Sound, the
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restarted by Footsie and Jah Model following the death of their father, Farda Woz.


Awards and nominations


Discography


Extended plays

* ''The Dragon Punch EP'' (with D.O.K) (Pitch Controller Records, 2011) * ''Round 1'' (Dragon Punch Records, 2012) * ''Sounds of the Sir'' (Dragon Punch Records, 2013) * ''Stop Talk'' (with Capo Lee) (SighTracked, 2017) * ''No Sleep'' (with K2 World) (Dragon Punch Records/Royal Blu Music, 2017) * ''Rude Sounds'' (with Rude Kid) (Rude Sounds, 2020) * ''Tekkerz 001'' (Tekkerz, 2021) * ''Have Manners'' (Tekkerz, 2023) * ''Tekkerz 003'' (Tekkerz, 2023) * ''King of Reloads'' (with
D Double E Darren Jason Dixon (born 19 January 1980), known professionally as D Double E, is a British grime MC, DJ and record producer from Forest Gate, East London. He performs both as a solo artist and as a member of the grime duo Newham Generals. ...
)
(Bluku Music, 2025)


Singles

* "Night Shift" (featuring Footsie) (Dragon Punch Records, 2012) * "Chung Li" (
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free download, 2014) * "Side By Side" (featuring Big H, Bossman Birdie and
President T Anthony George Harris, better known by his stage name President T, is a British grime artist. President T was born in Birmingham, but moved to Tottenham, North London when he was 3 years old. He is known for his distinct style of delivery, o ...
)
(Dragon Punch Records, 2015) * "Topper Top" (featuring Teddy Bruckshot, Lady Chann and Killa P) ( Deep Medi Musik, 2016) * "Mud" (with Capo Lee) (
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, 2016) * "1 Bagga Chat" (with K2 World) (Dragon Punch Records/Royal Blu Music, 2017) * "Premier League Champions Freestyle" (with Big Zuu) (Big Joints/MNRK, 2020) * "Hurdy Gurdy" (with Big Narstie) (Dice Recordings, 2020) * "WISH" (featuring Teddy Bruckshot, Black Steve, Killa P and
Flowdan Marc Veira (born 17 March 1980), better known by his stage name Flowdan, is an English grime MC and record producer. A founding member of Roll Deep, he was responsible for naming the group and remained a member until its hiatus. In 2015, he fou ...
)
(Neighbourhood Recordings, 2022) * "Bout It X2" (with Bossman Birdie and So Large) (Clean Unlimited, 2023) * "Ease" (with Nasty Jack, Jammer and So Large) (Grime Originals, 2023) * "Rambunctious" (with Bling Dawg) (Neighbourhood Recordings, 2023) * "Energy Gang" (with
D Double E Darren Jason Dixon (born 19 January 1980), known professionally as D Double E, is a British grime MC, DJ and record producer from Forest Gate, East London. He performs both as a solo artist and as a member of the grime duo Newham Generals. ...
)
(Bluku Music, 2024) * "Over the Wall" (featuring Duppy) (self-released, 2024) * "G.I.B (Grime Is Back)" (with D Double E) (Bluku Music, 2025)


Selected production credits


Remixes


References


External links


''Sir Spyro''
(BBC Radio 1Xtra) {{authority control 1986 births English people of Jamaican descent English people of Saint Lucian descent Black British DJs DJs from London English record producers Grime music artists UK garage musicians Musicians from the London Borough of Newham People from Manor Park, London People from Stratford, London 21st-century Black British musicians 21st-century British male musicians English electronic dance music DJs BBC Radio 1Xtra presenters Living people